Curriculum Vitae

Laura Mooneyham White

Professor of English

336D Andrews HallUniversity of Nebraska-Lincoln

Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0333

402-***-****; e-mail: abotpd@r.postjobfree.com

EDUCATION:

1980-, Ph.D, English, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee

Dissertation: "The Rhetoric of Education in Jane Austen's Novels"--John Halperin, advisor

1984, M.A., English, Vanderbilt University

1976-80, B.A., English, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

2010-present, Professor, English, University of Nebraska

-Lincoln

2000-2010, Associate Professor, English, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

2001-present, Director, Nineteenth-Century Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

2004-2005, Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Nebraska

-Lincoln

2002, Interim Director, UNL Humanities Center, University of Nebraska

-Lincoln

2001-2002, Assistant Director, UNL Humanities Center, University of Nebraska

-Lincoln

2000-present, Graduate Faculty Fellow, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

1996-2000, Assistant Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

1995-96, Assistant to the Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Nebraska-

Lincoln

1994-98, Visiting Associate Professor of English, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

1992-94, Associate Professor of English, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas

1986-92, Assistant Professor of English, Trinity University

1985-86, Lecturer, Vanderbilt Un iversity, Nashville, Tennessee

1980-1984, University Graduate Fellow, Vanderbilt University

FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION:

The British novel

Jane Austen

Nineteenth-century British literature

Anglo-American modernism

Narrative theory

Genre theory (especially comic theory and theory of the novel)

Social history, cultural studies, and history of manners

SCHOLARSHIP--BOOKS

Jane Austen s Anglicanism. NY: Ashgate Press, 2011.

Critical Essays on Jane Austen. Ed. Laura Mooneyham White. Critical Essays in English

Literature, gen. ed.

Zack Bowen. NY: G.K. Hall; London: Prentice Hall International, 1998.

Romance, Language and Education in Jane Austen's Novels . London: Macmillan; NY: St.

Martin's Press,

1988.

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SCHOLARSHIP WEB PROJECTS

SCHOLARSHIP REVIEWS:

GRANTS:

Nineteenth-Century Studies: Resources for an Interdisciplinary Curricular Resources.

With Linda

Pratt (English). Submitted to National Endowment for the Humanities Materials Development

Grant program for $200,000, October 2005, 2006 (denied). Contribution of 50%.

Developing On-Line Interdisciplinary Resources for Nineteenth-Century Studies. Center

for Digital

Research in the Humanities Faculty Fellowship grant, October 2004-October 2005. $9,800.

Developing an On-Line Graduate Interdisciplinary Curriculum. With Linda Pratt

(English). Vice

Chancellor for Research grant, May 2004-May 2005. $10,000.00

Visiting Scholar Grant, UNL Research Council [on behalf of Nineteen th-Century Studies,

to bring in Mary

Poovey, Director, Institute for the History of th e Production of Knowledge, NYU],

spring, 2004,

$738.00.

Rethinking Literary Modernism and the Place of Christian Modernism. UNL Research

Council Grant-

in-Aid, 2001-2002, $6,500.00

Visiting Scholar Grant, UNL Humanities Center [on behalf of Nineteenth-Century Studies,

to bring in

Bertram Wyatt-Brown, President, Southern Historical Association], spring, 2002, $1,500.00

Generic Realignment in the Late Nineteenth Century British Novel: Bronte, Meredith,

Hardy. Trinity

University Academic Leave, granted for spring 1995 (declined).

The Anachronism of Comic Form and the Novels of P.G. Wodehouse. Trinity University

Faculty

Development Grant, Summer 1991.

Closure and Escape: The Questionable Comedy of George Eliot's Middlemarch. Trinity

University Faculty

Development Grant, Summer 1989.

Spatial Boundaries and the Boundaries of the Self: Fr om Room to Garden to Beyond the

Pale in the Fiction

of Jane Austen, Trinity University Faculty Development Grant, Summer 1987.

COURSES TAUGHT:

University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Undergraduate courses: University Freshman Honors Seminar

(Manners

and Cultural Codes, three terms); University Senior Honors Seminar (two topics: Jane

Austen; Comedy and

Tragedy); Introduction to English Studies; Introduction to Poetry; Shakespeare;

Children s Literature;

Composition and Literature; Twentieth-Century Fictio n; Intermediate Composition; Women

in Popular

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Culture; English Authors After 1800 (regular and Honors versions); British Authors After

1800: The Mystery

and Gothic Tradition; Twentieth-Century Women s Literature; Introduction to Women s

Literature; Jane

Austen; Modern Fiction; Nineteenth-Century British Literature: Victorian Novelists;

Nineteenth-Century

British Literature: Poetry and Non-fiction Prose; The Novel: 1700-1900; Literary

Criticism; English Capstone:

Modernity. Graduate courses: Literary Criticism; Nineteenth-Centu ry British Literature;

The Nineteenth-

Century British Novel; The Nineteenth-Century British Novel: The Gothic Tradition; The

American Short

Story; Modern Fiction; Teaching the Novel; Interdis ciplinary Approaches to the

Nineteenth Century (co-

taught with Benjamin Rader, Histor y, twice; Ken Winkle, History, twic e; Wendy Katz, Art

History, once);

Interdisciplinary Themes in the Nineteenth Century: Manners and Class; Jane Austen;

Nineteenth-Century

Children s Literature (for spring 2012)

Trinity University. Undergraduate courses: Writing Workshop (each term); First-Year

Seminar (three

topics: Freedom and Responsibility; Progress; Good and Bad Manners); British Romanticism

to Modernism;

British Modernism; Nineteenth-Century British Literature; The British Novel; Theory of

the Novel; Austen

and Forster; Wallace Stevens; Studies in Literary Genre: Comedy.

AWARDS:

Outstanding Teaching and Instructio nal Creative Activity Award, University of Nebraska

system, 2010

Sorenson Award for Distinguished Teaching in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-

Lincoln, 2010

Nominated for the Dean s Award for Excellence in Graduate Education, 2009-10

College Award for Distinguished Teaching, College of Arts and Sciences, 2003

Parents Award for Teaching, 2000, 2003, and 2009

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE (selected) :

Editorial Board, Persuasions and Persuasions On-line, 1998-present

Editorial Board, South Atlantic Review, 1992-95

Manuscript reviews for the Modern Language Association, English, Papers in Language and

Literature, Studies in

the Novel, Mosaic, and Religion and Literature

Member, Modern Language Association; Association of Literary Scholars and Critics;

Modernist Studies

Association; Jane Austen Society of North America; Society for the Study of Narrative

Literature;

Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies; North American Victorian Studies

Association

INSTITUTIONAL SERVICE:

Departmental:

Vice-chair, 2010-present

Literature Coordinator (2009-2010)

Member, Chair s Advisory Committee (2007-present)

Chair, Faculty Development Leave Committee (2006)

Member, English Department Graduate Committee (2000-2004)

Interim Graduate Chair (June-Aug. 2004; May-Aug. 2005)

Member, Search Committees, post-colon ial position (2003-2004), British poetry position

(2006), modernism

position (2008), nineteenth-century and digital humanities position (2008-9), Victorian

position (2009-

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Chair, English Department Grading Appeals Committee (2000-2004)

Member, English Department Assessment Committee (2000-2005)

College-wide:

Chair, Search Committee, Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences (2009)

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Member, Arts and Sciences Faculty Instructiona l Development Committee (2005-2007; 2010-

present)

Director (interim), UNL Humanities Center (2002)

Assistant Director, UNL Humanities Center (2001-2002)

Member, Search Committee, Director, Humanities Center (2000-2001)

University-Wide:

University-wide Departmental Teaching Award Committee, 2010-present

Director, Nineteenth-Century Studies (2000-August, 2009); member, Steering Committee,

2009-present

Member, Nebraska Digital Workshop Committee, Center for Digital Research in the

Humanities (2008-

present)

Chancellor s Faculty and Staff Budget Re duction Impact Fund Committee (2003-2007)

Fellow, Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (2003-2006)

Member, Academic Affairs Humanities Task Force (2005-2006)

Wasted Time Committee, Academic Affairs (2003-2004)

University Studies Fellow (2001-2004)

Pew Peer Review Project English Department team member (2000-2001)

Steering Committee Member, Public Discourse and Human Values (1996-2002)

As Associate Dean at UNL:

Dean s Office Representative, College Curriculum Committee

Dean s Office Representative, Academic Program Reviews

Chair, Faculty Instructional Development Committee

Chair, Committee for Academic Distinction and Awards for Students

Member, Extended Education Council

College Liaison, Alpha Learning Community

As Assistant Dean at UNL:

Chair, College Assessment Committee

Chair, Area of Strength Advisory Committee (1995-2000)

Chair, Undergraduate Education Committee (1995-2000)

Coordinator, Alpha, the Arts and Sciences Liberal Arts Learning Community (1998-2000)

Coordinator, Arts and Sciences Area of Strength In itiative (UNL): Discrete,

Experimental, and Applied

Mathematics, Math/Science Education, Text Studies, International Human Rights and Human

Diversity, Public Discourse and Human Values, Family Research and Policy Initiative (1995-

2000)

Coordinator, Arts and Sciences Honors Program (1995-2000)

Coordinator, Graduate Recruitment, College of Arts and Sciences (1998-2000)

Staff Supervisor, Undergraduate Recruitment Office ; Publications Office, Advising

Office; Event

Coordination Office (seven staff members; 1998-2000)

Member, Steering Committees for three Arts and Sciences areas of strength: Math/Science

Education; Public

Discourse and Human Values; and Text Studies (1995-2000)

Chief Author/Editor, Arts and Sc iences Annual Report (1995-99)

Member, University Task Force on Honors; University Honors Committee; University Honors

Advisory

Board (A&S representative) (1995-2000)

Member, University Task Force on Assessment (A&S representative) (1995-2000)

Member, University Freshman Experience Task Force (A&S representative) (1998-2000)

Member, Task Force on First-Year Seminars (1999-2000)

Member, Task Force on Learning Communities (1999-2000)

Coordinator and A&S Representative, Grading Appeals Committee (1998-2000)

Coordinator and A&S Representative, Committee on Acad emic Distinction and Awards for

Students (1998-

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2000)

Coordinator and A&S Representative, Faculty Instructional Development Committee (1998-

2000)

Coordinator, New Chairs and Directors Workshop (1998)

Coordinator, Graduate Chairs Workshop (1999)

Coordinator, A&S Dean s Breakfast Meetings (1998-2000)

Member, University Fine Arts Outreach Task Force (UNL) (1995-2000)

Member, Faculty Roles and Responsibilities Committee (UNL) (1995-1998)

Member, International Studies Committee (UNL) (1995-1998)

Member, Ford Foundation Committee (for funded proposal in Crossing Borders: Revitalizing

Area Studies

initiative) (UNL) (1997-1999)

Member, Preparing Future Faculty Committee (UNL) (1995-2000)

Member, Task Force on Research and Graduate Education (UNL) (1997-1999)

Member, World-Scholar Day Committee (1995-2000)

Member, University Read Committee (1995-2000)

Service at Trinity:

Member, University Curriculum Council, 1992-94

Vice-Chair

Chair, Writing Workshop Review Committee

Chair, Ad Hoc Committee fo r Common Curriculum Review

Chair, Ad Hoc Committee to Review Curricular Assessment

Chair, Ad Hoc Committee on Transfer Credit

Faculty Senate, 1989-1991

Secretary, 1989-1991

Member, Executive Committee, 1989-1991

Chair, Ad Hoc Committee on Matern ity Leave, Faculty Senate, 1989-90

Member, University Governance and Administration Committee, 1989-1991

Member, Committee on Academic Integrity, 1990-3

Member, Task Force on the First-Year Seminar, 1992

First-Year Seminar Steering Committee, 1992-94

Instructor, Technical Writing, Texas PREP program, 10 weeks, summer 1992, 1993 and 1994

Member, University Task Force on First-Year Experience, 1991

Instructor, Writing Workshop for College-Bound Freshmen, Continuing Educ ation, summers

1991-94

Served on faculty of A Trinity Summer, summer 1988 and summer 1990

Instructor, Continuing Education's SAT Preparation Course, 1989-94

Acting Chair, Summers 1990 and 1991

Search Committee (two Americanist positions), 1991-1992

English Department Committees: Writing (1988-90); Hono rs (1988-90) and Curriculum (1986-

88 and 1990-94)

Trinity Review faculty editor, 1986-88

Sigma Tau Delta faculty sponsor, 1986-88

Sigma Tau Delta International Convention Committee, 1989-90

Faculty Editor, The Expositor, 1990-94

Honors Thesis Advisor (one-two theses yearly), 1989-94

COMMUNITY SERVICE

--Adult education courses at Holy Trinity Episcopal (from three to eight weeks long) on

C.S. Lewis (three

courses), Eliot s Four Quartets, N.T. Wright, Harry Potter, Jane Austen and the Church,

and Historical

Approaches to the Gospels (2000-present)

--Multiple presentations on Jane Austen at the Lincoln Public Libraries and to community

book groups (2000-

present)

--Yale alumni interviewer (2006-present)

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